[Mr Soutter also referred to the loss the colony would suffer if the office of Colonial Botanist were abolished. Baron von Mueller, in a letter to him, had said that the loss of Mr. Bailey’s services to Queensland would be a loss to the world, as regarded the work which the Baron and Mr. Bailey were at present jointly carrying out. The result would be that the work they had in hand might not be issued for many years, which would be a great loss, not only to this colony, but also to the rest of Australia.]
Letter not found. For the text given here, see ‘The Colonial Botanist: protest against retrenchment’, Brisbane courier, 9 August 1893, p. 3. Soutter was speaking as a member of a delegation that waited on Qld’s Minister for Lands and Agriculture the previous afternoon, 8 August 1893, to protest against Bailey’s retrenchment.
Please cite as “FVM-93-08-00,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora†, J.H. Voigt† and Monika Wells accessed on